English
commute
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /kəˈmjuːt/
Verb

commute (commutes, present participle commuting; past and past participle commuted)

  1. To exchange substantially; to abate but not abolish completely, a penalty, obligation, or payment in return for a great, single thing or an aggregate; to cash in; to lessen
    to commute tithes into rentcharges for a sum; to commute market rents for a premium, to commute daily fares for a season ticket
    1. (transitive, finance, law) To pay, or arrange to pay, in advance, in a lump sum instead of part by part.
      to commute the daily toll for a year's pass
    2. (transitive, legal, criminology) To reduce the sentence previously given for a criminal offense.
      • {{RQ:Macaulay History 5|The utmost that could be obtained was that her sentence should be commuted from burning to beheading.
      His prison sentence was commuted to probation.
    3. (transitive, insurance, pensions) To pay out the lumpsum present value of an annuity, instead of paying in instalments; to cash in; to encash
    4. (intransitive, obsolete) To obtain or bargain for exemption or substitution;
      • He […] thinks it unlawful to commute, and that he is bound to pay his vow in kind.
  2. (intransitive, mathematics) Of an operation, to be commutative, i.e. to have the property that changing the order of the operands does not change the result.
    A pair of matrices share the same set of eigenvectors if and only if they commute.
Translations
  • Russian: смягчать наказание
  • Spanish: conmutar
Translations Translations Noun

commute (plural commutes)

  1. A regular journey to or from a place of employment, such as work or school.
  2. The route, time or distance of that journey.
Verb

commute (commutes, present participle commuting; past and past participle commuted)

  1. (intransitive) To regularly travel from one's home to one's workplace or school, or vice versa.
    I commute from Brooklyn to Manhattan by bicycle.
  2. (intransitive) To journey, to make a journey
    • 2015, Elizabeth Royte, Vultures Are Revolting. Here’s Why We Need to Save Them., National Geographic (December 2015):
      By one estimate, vultures either residing in or commuting into the Serengeti ecosystem during the annual migration—when 1.3 million white-bearded wildebeests shuffle between Kenya and Tanzania—historically consumed more meat than all mammalian carnivores in the Serengeti combined.
Translations
  • French: faire la navette
  • German: pendeln, hin- und herfahren
  • Italian: fare il pendolare
  • Portuguese: fazer a jornada (de trabalho)
  • Russian: (регулярно) е́здить
  • Spanish: pendular, (to work) viajar al trabajo, (from work) viajar del trabajo


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